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Come to the free online launch event for LOVE OF THE HALF-EATEN PEACH!
My second picture book is out in the world and you can attend the Highlights Foundation book birthday party with me and the book’s illustrator, Jieting Chen!
Join us on Instagram at 8:30am Pacific/11:30am Eastern on Tuesday September 10, 2024 for the Instagram Live stream: https://www.instagram.com/highlightsfound/
Cool Stuff for Queer Kids
(a.k.a. The Blog – and yes, allies are welcome!)
Signed Bookplates (by me and Paul O. Zelinsky) for “Red and Green and Blue and White” – a Holiday Giveaway
A photo of 20 bookplate stickers signed by Paul O. Zelinsky and me (!) for our picture book, "Red and Green and Blue and White" I have twenty bookplate stickers to give away to celebrate the season! If you'd like one, just take a photo of yourself with your copy of...
The New York Times Review of “Red and Green and Blue and White” Calls it “Beautiful”!
Me posing with the Sunday Nov 28, 2021 New York Times - the top half of page 22 of the Book Review is the amazing review of "Red and Green and Blue and White"! External validation feels scary. To let it influence my internal measure of the worth of what I've done...
Queer as All Get Out: 10 People Who’ve Inspired Me – a Graphic Novel-Style Nonfiction Memoir and History Lesson
Queer as All Get Out: 10 People Who've Inspired Me by Shelby Criswell Follow the daily life of one queer artist from Texas as they introduce us to the lives of ten extraordinary people.The author shares their life as a genderqueer person, living in the American South,...
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My New Podcast
(Because stories — especially our Queer stories and history — should be available for all.)
Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: The Podcast
Join me each Thursday in June as I share my award-winning novel, Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill, chapter by chapter, in its entirety, to empower Queer teens and their allies with the information that would have changed my life if I’d learned it back when I was a closeted Gay Jewish 13 year old who loved adventure books but thought history had nothing to do with me.
- Podcast announcement
- Lee Wind author photo
(credit Joanna DeGeneres) - Podcast logo
- Check out the books
Celebrate #QueerJoy
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Where I'll be coming up in 2024
CALIBA Fall Fest- IBPA booth host, author - Sep 2024, Pasadena, CA
Recent Media
Big Gay Fiction podcast -- Audiobook Connection podcast -- Read Your World Instagram Live -- Mombian article-- Paper Phoenix Ink interview -- Publishers Weekly (“Love of the Half-Eaten Peach” announcement) -- Publishers Weekly (“A Different Kind of Brave” announcement) -- Books that Make You podcast -- Remarkable Leadership Lessons podcast -- and more to come!
